Supporter for electric-globe shades.



C. L. SCHAFER & l. ARNOW. SUPPOBTER FOR ELECTRIC GLOBE SHADES.APPLICATION min AUG-8.1918.

1,296,433. Patented Mar. 4,1919.

INVENTOR Ce/m A. 5064/5,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1919.

Application filed August 8, 1318. Serial No. 248,975. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat we, CELIA L. SCHAFER and IRWIN ABNOW, citizens,respectively, of Russia and of the United States, and both residents ofthe city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Supporter for Electric-GlobeShades, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are:to insure the service position of a diifusing shade suspended below anelectric globe; to avoid acshade incident to the breaking of the globe;to maintain the service relation of the shape of the globe; and tosimplify the construction of the supporter.

Drawings.

Figure 1 is a side view of an electric globe and shade thereforconnected as in service by a Supporter constructed and arranged inaccordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view on an enlarged scale of said supporter;

Fig. 3 is a side view on a reduced scale of the supporter, showing inconjunction there perpendicularly disposed to emphasize the normalarrangement of the supporter.

Description.

As seen in the drawings, a diflusing shade 8 having an inwardly curlededge 9, is provided, the inwardly-curled edge 9 forming a channel toreceive a. resilient hoop 10. The hoop 10 is integrally connected withbent bracket arms 11, which normally gap to form the interspace 12. Thebracket arms 11 are integrally formed with the hoop 10 and with thesupporting cage formed by the half-circular collars 13, 1 1, and thereach bars 15 connecting said collars. The reach bars 15 separate thecollars 13 and 11 sufficientlyto allow the collar 14 to infold thesocket 16 above the ridge 17 thereof when the collar 13 is engaged withthe neck 18 of the electric globe 19.

As seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the supporter including the hoop 10,bracket arms 11, collars 13 and 14, and reach bars 15, is integral orformed from a single piece of s ring wire. The spring wire is set orfixeiily bent so that the hoop 10 normally opens to a larger diameterthan the diameter of the channel formed by the curled edge 9, and theinner ends of the arms 11 are drawn close together so that the normaldiameters of the collars 13 and 14: are less than the diameters of thesockets 16 and the neck 18. The result of this construction is that whenthe supporter is placed in service relation to the shade 8, the arms 11are moved toward each other to reduce the interspace 12 and to contractthe hoop until the same passes within the edge 9. This operation isperformed before the shade is disposed in service relation to the globe19. To so dispose the shade, the arms 11 are sufliciently spread so thatthe collars 13 and 14: are opened to permit the socket 16 and neck 18 topass into the same between the reach bars 15. When the arms 11 are thenreleased, they retract to force the collars 13 and 1 1 into servicerelation with the neck 18 and socket 163, respectively.

It will be observed that in service the globe 19 becomes heated and thatthe heat thereof is transmitted to the metal of the collar 13. If, assometimes happens, the temper of the wire at this point is reduced, theweight of the shade would cause the supporter to sag on the globe, or asoften occurs, to fall. When supporters are constructed as hereindisclosed, both of these difiiculties are avoided by reason of the factthat the collar 14 being removed from. the heat-aflected area, retainsits grip on the socket 16 and ridge 1'? thereof, which prevents thefalling of the shade 8 or the sagging thereof.

As best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the hoop 10 is set at a slightangle above a ,plane perpendicular to the axis of the collars 13 and 14,intersecting the outer ends of the bracket arms 11. The result of thisconstruction is that the edge of the hoop 10 opposite the interspace 12,is lifted above the horizontal.

In service, the weight of the shade 8 depresses the said hoop to a levelposition or to coincide with the horizontalline a shown in Fig. 3 of thedrawings. The tendency of the structure to sag is augmented by the heatradiated from the globe l9.

relation and in parallel planes, reach bars vertically connecting saidcollars for forming an elongated cage-like holding structure, acontracti-ble hoop, and separated bracket arms connecting said hoop andsaid collars.

2. A supporter as characterized embodying a single piece of spring wirebent to form three circular shapes disposed in vertically Spacedrelation with connecting members for maintaining said spaced relation,said connecting members being separated and juxtaposed for permitting.the expansion and contraction of said shapes;

3. A supporter as characterized embodying a single piece of wire bent toform a normally open-ended hoop inwardly and up- Wardly extended bracketarms connecting the ends of said hoop; two lower circular collarsections, the ends of said sections being spaced apart; two verticallyarranged reach bars, said bars being disposed in spaced relation; andtwo upper circular collar sections, the ends of said sections beingspaced apart, said sections forming holding members for engagingsimultaneously in service the socket of an electric globe and the neckof said globe below said socket.

CELIA L. SGHAFER. IRWIN ARNOW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

